Looking forward to our second gathering for our book club. It is not too late to join us!

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Starting book club September 15 - November 1 Better in Every Sense How the Science of Sensation Can Help Reclaim Your Life by Norman Farb PhD. Meeting times every 2 weeks 8:00 AM PST $15 | Optional CEUs Available Feeling stuck in the same old ruts? This fall, we're reading Better in Every Sense: How the New Science of Sensation Can Help You Reclaim Your Life by neuroscientist Norman Farb, PhD and clinical psychologist Zindel Segal, PhD. The book introduces "sense foraging" — a practical, science-backed approach to breaking free from autopilot and reconnecting with your senses to navigate life's challenges with more clarity and openness. Praised by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Judson Brewer, and Sharon Salzberg, it's an accessible blend of cutting-edge neuroscience and hands-on tools you can actually use. What's included: Every two weeks, we'll gather for a live discussion to dig into the chapters together — sharing insights, questions, and real-life experiments with the practices. Between sessions, the conversation continues in our community space, where you can post reflections and connect with fellow readers. Can't make a live call? Every session is recorded and available in the course section, so you'll never miss a beat. Continuing Education: For licensed professionals, CEUs are available for an additional $15 fee. As an approved provider with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS), we make it easy to deepen your clinical toolkit while earning credit. Why $15? We've kept the price low so it's accessible to everyone, but meaningful enough that you'll show up for yourself and the group. Your commitment is what makes this community work. Grab your copy of the book, join us in September to learn and grow together.

The Dojo and the Dirt: What Cultivating Resilience Actually Takes There is a man who shaped the way we think about resilience here at Hope Reimagined. His name is Tesfaye Tekelu, a trainer with the Strozzi Institute and someone I had the honor to work and learn along side at Destiny Arts Center. Today he lead the Strozzi Community Dojo—a practice space that brings us back to body, in relationship and growing together. This is an open free space and the link is attached. My relationship with Tes and what I have learned from him is deeply embedded in the NSIF. Today Tesfaye led us in practice to cultivate resilience. He reminded me it’s not a trait you either have or don’t. It is not toughness. It is not the ability to push through. It is something much more alive than that: the capacity to be moved by life and return to yourself. To be knocked off center—by grief, by conflict, by overwhelm, by joy—and to find your way back. Not perfectly. Not immediately. But reliably, over time. Resilience is not the absence of being shaken. It is the practiced ability to return. And that return is not a mental decision—it is a somatic one. The body knows the way back. We practice so that path becomes familiar. Within the Neuro-Somatic Integration™ Framework, we understand resilience as a nervous system capacity—not a personality trait, not a mindset, and not something you perform. It is built through patterned, rhythmic, embodied practice. It is built by presenting moments of joy and how they felt in your body,. By recalling in sensation the memories of those moments. It is not toxic positivity it is remembering viscerally authentic moments of joy that help us navigate day to day. Tes talked about resilience as a spring rather then a bucket and our somatic practice is to identify the blocks to resilience and to clear the path for it to flow in ways we can return to over and over again. 🌱 Micro-Practice: The Joy That Lives in Your Body Rather than a centering exercise, it becomes a guided somatic resourcing journey — walking the reader back into a real memory of joy through each sense, in sequence:

Thursdays are a heavy coaching day for me, so I’ll be a little lighter on engagement here today—but I still want to keep the soundtrack of the day going. 🎶 Yesterday, @Ires Aponte shared a song that instantly became my post meditation morning personal dance party track. 💃🏽✨ https://youtu.be/C7tu4EMoDxI?si=osCC2dDB_nvRmSVM I’m collecting the songs that move me during these mornings and weaving them into a soundtrack for our March retreat—music that carries energy, grounding, and joy. I like all kinds of music in many different genres so share what insures you! Drop a song for the soundtrack of your day below. I may just add it to the retreat playlist. 🌿🎧